Robert L. Berner's “Howlers”: A Reply

A Final Word on Johansen, Grinde, and the Iroquois Example

“…But Johansen and Grinde's claims for Franklin as a contributor of Iroquois thought to the Constitution is that he "printed treaty accounts from 1736 to 1762," that he attended "Iroquois councils during the early 1750s," that he "published actively in the Philadelphia press on questions of political theory," and that he "merged European and Native American political precedents in his Albany Plan and Articles of Confederation." 8 Leaving aside their implication that Franklin was responsible for "his . .…”

“…. rak'd out of the ashes") 9 and certainly something more than further reference to the number of footnotes in Exemplar of Liberty.…”